BORED in a Sentence
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273 example sentences for BORED, such as:
1. The workmen bored through the rock.
2. The speech bore the stamp of authority.
3. Scarlett made a mouth of bored impatience.
4. I read the first few chapters and then got bored.
5. Children quickly get bored by adult conversation.
2. The speech bore the stamp of authority.
3. Scarlett made a mouth of bored impatience.
4. I read the first few chapters and then got bored.
5. Children quickly get bored by adult conversation.
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Meanings and Examples of BORED
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bored
a. tired of the world
a. uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 "You know there isn't going to be any war," said Scarlett, bored.
2 Scarlett made a mouth of bored impatience.
3 There had been no talk of politics or impending war all during the morning, because of Mr. Wilkes' request that the ladies should not be bored.
4 But Scarlett carefully folded up the letter without finishing it and thrust it back into the envelope, too bored to read further.
5 Rhett looked lazy and his voice had a silky, almost bored, note.
6 I do get awfully bored when they talk about the Cause, morning, noon and night.
7 But she was heartily bored, even as she had been the day when Grandma launched on her memories of the Creek uprising.
8 It was only Ashley who drew her to the house, for the conversations bored and saddened her.
9 Not that he was notably brilliant or exceptional; in his own profession he was surpassed by more than one man who had bored Lily through many a weary dinner.
10 Mrs. Peniston, under ordinary circumstances, was as much bored by her excellent cousin as the recipient of such services usually is by the person who performs them.
11 He leaned against the wall, scratched a while, sighed, and in a bored way gossiped with a man tilted back in a chair.
12 Miss Bea was a stalwart, corn-colored, laughing young woman, and she was bored by farm-work.
13 She talked of Kennicott's overshoes and medical ideals till they were thoroughly bored.
14 She was like the revolutionist at fifty: not afraid of death, but bored by the probability of bad steaks and bad breaths and sitting up all night on windy barricades.
15 They had two meals with Carol's sister, and were bored, and felt that intimacy which beatifies married people when they suddenly admit that they equally dislike a relative of either of them.
Example Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1 One afternoon, I grew bored and actually fell asleep for a few minutes.
2 Children quickly get bored by adult conversation.
3 His yawns suggested he was either tired or bored.
4 Everyone around him was trying to be polite, but you could tell they were all bored.
5 He moped around the office for a while, feeling bored.
6 I read the first few chapters and then got bored.
7 The workmen bored through the rock.
8 All too often, they get bored, and seek refuge in drink and drugs.
9 I'm bored by history-dates and battles and all that stuff.
10 Although his speech lasted for only twenty minutes, it seemed interminable to his bored audience.
11 When arousal is too low, we become bored, and seek out activities to stimulate our minds.
12 From the students' glazed looks, it was easy for me to infer that they were bored out of their minds.
13 He has been described as a 'charmless bore'-not by me, I hasten to add.
14 The speech bore the stamp of authority.
15 A group of half a dozen men entered the pub and bore down on the bar.